BUSINESS NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 December 1908, Page 5

BUSINESS NOTES.

) t C«nisignees are requested to note ad— Y-ei'tisement in another column in refer,en<}p.:to Wanganui cargo ex the Tysen line,r s.s. Mimiro, and which is now coming:ix>r hand. - Mr J. Stevenson is thoiocal agent.

IMPORTANT LAND SALE

, ..Messrs Holloway, Hogan, and Caddy; XLirnited) have been authorised to selB: jthe well-known McNeill estate, Ara— . i molio, by public auction on Wednesday^ 16th December. This property has now been roaded and sub-divided into sections ranging from i-acre to 12 acres,, and no better locality could be imagined! for home sites; The advent of the trams.» should make this property very valuable indeed in a short time, and theopportlmity to get in "on the groundv floor" is here presented. The terms, are the easiest ever offered in Wanga— niii. Plans, etc., on application to thef auctioneem.

SPEdAIi DRAPERY SALE.

The Sydney Cash and Drapery Company,' corner of the Avenue and •Guytoua Street, announce a specially cheap drapery sale for three weeks. Another big; lot of Sydney drapery just arrived for the Christmas trade, including a manufacturer's saniples of Silk Blouses. Absolutely by far the cheapest goods everseen in Wanganui. Lot 1 at 7s '6d*, lovely new styles, well worth 10s 6d~ lot 2, at 9s 6d, rich and stylish, easilyworth 12s .Cd; lot 3, at, 11s 6d andl 12a 6d, really handsome - and stylish^ and cheap at 17s 6d. Ladies, come and;} see these wonderful cheap blouses atr the Cash. Open every eyening; until 9 o'clock, for the convenience o£?. town and country customers.

M. Lepine is concerned with the solution oil a grave problem—the regulating of aeroplane traffic in Paris (says* the ; Paris correspondent of the " DailyTelegraph"). JNp aeroplane has yet. landed inthe boulevards, but M. Lepine is convinced that the time is nottar off, and when they do come, it is~ necessary that they should bo subject, to" a proper police regulation. A Paris-, •contemporary has interviewed M. Le— pine, and found him quite absorbedV in the question. Ac long as aeroplanes* stick to tho air, we have nothing to* do with, them, but once they land hv: the streets it is quite- another matter^. Ladies might faint, horses take fright,, or v cabmen, lose their tempor, if the flying machines landed unexpectedly in\ the wrong places. Public squares or~ special places would have to be set. aside •as aeroplane stations, and, of.'" course, the inevitable fine provided forthe aeroplanist who should land on thesteps of the Opera House just as theporformauce is over. A lieutenant off" M. Lepine has even seriously discussedthe advisability of drawing up rules forthe future brigade of aerial police. Thecomic papers have been treating thematter as a joke for gome time past, but at tho police headquarters the prob~ lem is looked forward toji^dead earnest—